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Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the… — Hans Kung
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's… — Thomas More
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in… — Thomas More
Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware… — Erich Fromm
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at… — Margaret Thatcher
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our… — Tom Robbins
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is… — Khalil Gibran
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in… — Maria Montessori
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The… — Tina Brown
The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. — Ely Culbertson
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer, — S. S. Van Dine
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality...… — E E Cummings
There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world. — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He… — Zhuangzi
If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But… — Alfie Kohn
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal… — Albert Bushnell Hart
Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason — Alfie Kohn
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. — Abraham Lincoln
Punishments erode relationships and moral growth. — Alfie Kohn
About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a… — Kurt Vonnegut
Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by its own inner… — Ambrose
Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears,… — Gregory Palamas
I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have… — Helen Keller
God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence… — Harold S. Kushner

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